Architecture Quote by Peter Zumthor

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

— Thomas Heatherwick

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

— Oscar Niemeyer

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing.…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

Architecture is art, nothing else.

— Philip Johnson

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make…

— Maya Lin

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so…

— Helmut Jahn

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

— Kenzo Tange

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

— Walter Gropius